Improved billiard-cue tip



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JONATHAN H. GREEN, OF OHRISTIANSBURG, IOWA.

IMPROVED BlLLlARD-CUE TIP.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 25,257, dated August 30, 1859.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JONATHAN H. GREEN, of Ohristiansburg, county of Wapello, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Tip or Point for Billiard or Bagatelle Cues; and I do hereby declare that the following; is a full and exact description of the said invention.

I make a composition of gutta-percha or india-rubber, (vulcanized,) with pulverized or commin uted chalk or any calcareous substance, the properties which I have found best in practice being three-fourths of the chalk or other substance to one-fourth of gutta-percha or india-rubber. The shape of the tip thus prepared is made similar to that of the tips in common use. I then attach the tip, with glue,

either to a ferrule, to be screwed to the end of the cue, or to the end of the cue itself.

Ihese tips are more durable than those made of leather, and they do not require to be chalked at all, whereby there is a saving both of time and of the cover of the bed.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A tip or point for billiard or bagatelle cues, made of any compound herein described, so as to dispense with the external application of chalk or other substance to the point of the cue.

JONATHAN H. GREEN.

Witnesses:

HORACE A. ANDREWS, JOHN BYRNE. 

